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Assessment report: Excess Mercury Supply in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010-2050
(2009)
The UNEP Governing Council decision GC 24/3 IV identified seven priority areas for action to reduce the risks from releases of mercury, two of which are: • To reduce the global mercury supply, including considering curbing ...
Global Mercury Assessment
(2002)
This report responds to the request of the Governing Council (GC) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through GC decision 21/5, that UNEP undertake a global assessment of mercury and mercury compounds, in ...
The Global Atmospheric Mercury Assessment: Sources, Emissions and Transport
(2008)
The Global Atmospheric Mercury Assessment: Sources, Emissions and Transport
Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Mercury Releases: Pilot Draft - November 2005
(2005-11)
This Toolkit aims to assist countries that are developing their mercury inventory to estimate releases of mercury, and also leads them through the process of how to enhance and refine these inventories. The Toolkit’s goal ...
Global Mercury Assessment
(2002)
This report responds to the request of the Governing Council (GC) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through GC decision 21/5, that UNEP undertake a global assessment of mercury and mercury compounds, in ...
Summary of Supply, Trade and Demand Information on Mercury
(2006)
Despite an apparent quantity of publicly available data, much of the world mercury market is private, and some of it is illegal. This adds an additional element of uncertainty even to those commercial mercury flows we ...
Guide for Reducing Major Uses and Releases of Mercury
(2006)
This document is intended to assist countries to identify sources of mercury exposure and to assess main methods of reducing mercury exposures and risks to their people.
Report on Activities Undertaken within the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership (2007-2008)
(2009)
The Overarching Framework of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership specifies that one of the responsibilities of the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership Advisory Group is to report on activities undertaken within the UNEP Global ...
Squeezing Gold from a Stone: How to Reduce Toxic Health Risks and Pollution Caused by Mercury Use in the Small-Scale & Artisanal Gold Mining Sector
(2009)
Low-cost technologies available now have the potential to reduce dramatically mercury pollution in the small-scale and artisanal mining sector. By supporting miners with knowledge and resources to adopt these new technologies ...
Mercury Inventory Report of Pakistan
(2008)
This report provides information of mercury sources and quantity in Pakistan. This report is a first time in the history of Pakistan regarding inventory of mercury and mercury products data collection by the Ministry of ...